Garrison Keillor Quotes
Most popular Garrison Keillor Quotes
![We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/19/25319A-we-carry-adolescence-around-in-our-bodies-all-our-lives-garrison-keillor.png)
We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives.
![The Book: Man's Chief Weapon Against Tedium. Woman's too. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/17/27317A-the-book-mans-chief-weapon-against-tedium-womans-too-garrison-keillor.png)
The Book: Man's Chief Weapon Against Tedium. Woman's too.
![Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/70/27670A-cats-are-intended-to-teach-us-that-not-everything-nature-garrison-keillor.png)
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
![Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/48/50948A-thank-you-god-for-this-good-life-forgive-us-if-garrison-keillor.png)
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
![A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/19/26019A-a-man-cant-eat-anger-for-breakfast-sleep-with-it-garrison-keillor.png)
A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.
![Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world—like grace —and shines on everybody. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/12/14812A-humor-is-not-a-trick-not-jokes-humor-is-presence-garrison-keillor.png)
Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world—like grace —and shines on everybody.
![Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/13/33313A-selective-ignorance-a-cornerstone-of-child-rearing-you-dont-put-garrison-keillor.png)
Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you.
![Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/93/33093A-humor-a-good-sense-of-it-is-americans-what-manhood-garrison-keillor.png)
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.
![Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/24/36924A-parents-should-sit-tall-in-the-saddle-look-upon-their-garrison-keillor.png)
Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
![Writers are vacuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/44/42444A-writers-are-vacuum-cleaners-who-suck-up-other-peoples-lives-garrison-keillor.png)
Writers are vacuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps.
![It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/39/24039A-it-was-luxuries-like-air-conditioning-that-brought-down-roman-garrison-keillor.png)
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
![Journalism is a good place for any writer to start—the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/96/33996A-journalism-is-a-good-place-for-any-writer-start-retailing-garrison-keillor.png)
Journalism is a good place for any writer to start—the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence.
![A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book. - Garrison Keillor quote.](/img/q/87/17887A-a-romp-in-the-hay-lingers-like-first-line-song-garrison-keillor.png)
A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.